Today countless churches are preaching a message that has little if anything to do with the biblical gospel. Recently Ligonier Ministries hosted its West Coast Conference at Grace Community Church in Los Angeles, California, in order to help the church address this pressing problem. Michael Horton, John MacArthur, Peter Jones, and R.C. Sproul came together to examine many of the popular misunderstandings of the gospel in our day and seek to equip evangelicals to stand firm with the good news delivered once for all to the saints.
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One of the oldest mysteries of theoretical thought is the question: What is time?
Immanuel Kant defined time and space as “pure intuitions.” We see time as inextricably related to matter and motion. Without matter and space [matter and motion], we have no way to measure the passing of time. Time, it seems, is always in motion. It can never be stopped.
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Although John Piper will not be able to join us as originally scheduled, we are very grateful for our good friend John MacArthur's willingness to join the speaker line-up for our 23rd annual National Conference June 17-19 in Orlando, Fla.
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Not too long ago my family and I were eating at a local restaurant known for its home style southern cuisine and quaint family atmosphere. As we were leaving, I couldn’t help but notice a family sitting together, and each one of them — Dad, Mom, big brother, and little sister — was engaged in a conversation with someone else, somewhere else in a galaxy far, far away. With shoulders hunched down and their eyes staring lifelessly into their electronic mobile devices, their frantic fingers typed away as their carefully placed emoticons (electronic emotional images, such as smiley faces, sad faces, etc.) presumably took their appropriate places as emotional substitutes for their dispassionate, electronically glowing faces.
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For three days the world was plunged into darkness. The women of Jesus’ entourage wept bitterly, taking but small consolation in the permission to perform the tender act of anointing His body. The disciples had fled and were huddled together in hiding, their dreams shattered by the cry, “It is finished.” For three days God was silent. Then He screamed.
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How does today’s postmodernism affect the popular understanding of the atonement?
My biggest concern is the way in which the postmodern mentality is seducing the church, even the Reformed church. There seems to be a tacit assumption that somewhere around 1970, at the end of the cultural revolution of the 1960s, that something remarkable happened—a constituent change took place in the nature of human beings, from the manner in which we were created. Now life is no longer constructed on the basis of truth piercing the soul by way of the mind.
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Is there a connection between a faulty understanding of man's depravity and rejection of the doctrine of limited atonement?
At the risk of sounding like a broken record because I’ve said it so many times, I really think that the biggest problem we have in theology is achieving a correct understanding of two doctrines—the doctrine of God and the doctrine of man. In the Institutes of the Christian Religion, in the opening chapter, John Calvin writes about the importance of having a sound understanding of who man is in order to gain a proper understanding of Who God is.
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We are warned not to allow ourselves to become hardened, because if we look at the whole concept of hardening in its biblical perspective, we see that something happens to us through repeated sins. Our consciences become seared. The more we commit a particular sin, the less remorse we feel from it. Our hearts are recalcitrant through repeated disobedience.
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Why was Christ's death necessary? For whom did Christ die? What is the meaning of the cross and why is it so important? These are some of the most important questions every Christian needs to address. Take some time to listen to these free streaming past conference and teaching series that will help answer these difficult questions.
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If any event that has transpired on this planet is too high and too holy for us to comprehend, it is the passion of Christ—His death, His atonement, and His forsakenness by the Father. We would be totally intimidated to speak of it at all were it not for the fact that God in His Word has The Life of Jesus 79 set before us the revelation of its meaning. In this section, I want to focus on the biblical interpretation of Christ’s death on the cross.
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